Posts Tagged ‘Day Trips’

Girona

By admin • Mar 23rd, 2008 • Category: Day Trips

Girona is one of the four provinces that, together with Barcelona, Tarragona and Lleida, make up the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. Each province, in turn, is divided into counties. The counties in the province of Girona are: El Gironès, La Selva, El Pla de l’Estany, L’Alt and El Baix Empordà, La Garrotxa, El Ripollès and [...]



Montserrat

By admin • Mar 22nd, 2008 • Category: Day Trips

Montserrat is a mountain near Barcelona, in Catalonia, in Spain. It is the site of a Benedictine abbey, Santa María de Montserrat, which hosts the Virgin of Montserrat sanctuary and which is identified by some [1] with the location of the Holy Grail in Arthurian myth.
“Montserrat” literally means “jagged (serrated) mountain” in Catalan. It describes [...]